Introducing The Run-Up, Our New Election Podcast

It’s three months until Election Day. To guide you through this final, delirious phase of the presidential campaign, The New York Times is drawing on our all-star team of reporters, columnists, magazine writers and analysts to create a new podcast. It’s called The Run-Up.

I will be your host. I’ve covered every twist and turn of the last two presidential campaigns for The Times — from Mitt Romney’s infamous “47 percent” remark to Barack Obama’s sudden shift on gay marriage, Marco Rubio’s debate night meltdown to Hillary Clinton’s inability to build trust. (Before that, I covered Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg’s City Hall, and that other cutthroat business: the American retailing industry.)

Twice a week on The Run-Up, my colleagues and I will make sense of a campaign that has baffled, shocked and reordered the political world. We’ll also bring you interviews with some of the election’s most influential figures.

You’ll be able to listen to a new episode of The Run-Up each Tuesday and Friday on the digital platforms of The New York Times, as well as on iTunes, Google Play Music, Stitcher or the podcast app of your choice. If you have never listened to a podcast before, scroll down for some assistance.

For our first episode, we explore whether Hillary Clinton, the most distrusted Democratic presidential nominee in a generation, is heading for an old-fashioned, legitimate landslide — and if she is, or if she comes close, what that would mean for the future of both parties.

Our guests: Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House; Amy Chozick, who covers Mrs. Clinton for The Times; and Nate Cohn, a data whiz from The Upshot.

BARBARO: Does he have the mental fitness, the kind of psychological suitability to the office of the presidency?

GINGRICH: [pause] Yeah, and my answer would be, sure.

BARBARO: Sure?

GINGRICH: Sure. I mean, he is at least as reliable as Andrew Jackson, who was one of the most decisive presidents in American history. Nobody would have predicted Abraham Lincoln’s capabilities before he became president, and most people didn’t believe him while he was president.

BARBARO: Can you be more forceful than “sure”?

GINGRICH: [pause] I think that Trump has a willingness to break up a system which is decaying. I think the kind of personality that is prepared to be outside the total establishment and have the self confidence to take on the establishment of both parties is a personality which will by definition not be normal. It will not be a good, corporate managerial, go-along-and-get-along kind of guy, and that’s what you guys mean by temperament.

Take a listen, and let us know what you think. You can reach us at therunup@nytimes.com, or find me on Twitter.

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3. Subscribe. Once on the series page, click on the word “subscribe” to have new episodes sent to your phone for free.

4. Or just sample. If you ’would rather listen to an episode or two before deciding to subscribe, just click on the episode title from the list on the series page. If you have an internet connection, you’ll be able to stream the episode.